To:L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written between October 27 and 30, 1922Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

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ComradeKamenev:

Krzhizhanovskyhas told me that Pyatakov had made
a slip and had allowed anincreasein the estimates(People’s Commissariatfor Defence) instead of a reduction.
We should perhapsput it offfor a day or two to try tocorrectPyatakov?[1]

Yours,Lenin

[1]Areference to the fact that G. L. Pyatakov, in his capacity as
Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission, signed
military estimates for 26,000,000 million rubles (in terms of 1922
banknotes) over and above the amount proposed by the People’s
Commissariat for Finance. On October 28, 1922, these estimates were
approved by the C.P.C. See also this volume, Documents 785 and
786.